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The institutionalization of religion seems symptomatic of the human tendency to mistrust our own intuitions, which can result in an abdication of responsibility.
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Negar Rachel Treister
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06/24/09
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Despite the similarities between the June 2009 protests and those of 1979, speculation that this round will spark another revolution is premature.
Dani Rodrik
Project Syndicate
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06/19/09
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The conundrum of global reform is that the proposals that go far enough, such as establishing a global financial regulator, are wildly unrealistic, while those that are realistic, such as reform of the IMF, fall far short of what is needed. What we need is a vision of globalization that is fully cognizant of its limits.
Project Syndicate
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06/08/09
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Chinese government official Zhenhua Xie describes China's philosophy and progress in the fight to curtail climate change.
Joe Copeland
Yes! Magazine
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06/01/09
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President Obama and other nations' leaders will need the support of an informed, engaged public if they are to create meaningful progress toward nuclear disarmament.
There are enormous limits as to what Japan, South Korea, and the United States could do about North Korea even if China agreed to follow their diplomatic lead. Stronger sanctions may indeed bring down the Kim Jong Il regime, but that is the outcome everyone really wishes to avoid.
The Obama administration has reversed former President George W. Bush's isolationist policies toward Syria, but has little to show for it. The government will need a more comprehensive approach to loosen Syria's ties to Iran and terrorist networks.
Dani Rodrik
Project Syndicate
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05/22/09
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Even with the worst of the crises over, we are likely to find ourselves in a somewhat de-globalized world, one in which international trade grows at a slower pace, there is less external finance, and rich countries' appetite for running large current-account deficits is significantly diminished. Developing countries will have to substitute real industrial policies for those that operate through the exchange rate.
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Robert Pollack,
Amy Pollack
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05/19/09
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Any brain can imagine, learn, teach, remember, or forget any idea, regardless of the ancestry of the person whose mind is emergent in that brain, and regardless of whether that idea reflects the facts of nature. Perhaps the most self-serving and punitive example of such a dreamt idea is the notion that "genes are destiny." They are not.
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Edward J. Lincoln
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05/04/09
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Should we be pleased that Japan is gradually stepping up to its responsibilities in global security, or are there better ways for it to help provide global public goods?
Jeffrey Sachs
Project Syndicate
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05/01/09
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Many of the global security hotspots lie in a great arc of arid lands where water scarcity is leading to failed crops, dying livestock, extreme poverty, and desperation.
Indecisive politics and economic crisis plague Japan. Yet the Japanese social fabric has so far been strong enough to absorb long-term social, economic, and political changes. What type of country will emerge from the rubble?
Certain things we know to be true. We know that the South kept slaves, and the North fought a righteous war of liberation. We know that the slave trade was legal right up to the Civil War. We know that the Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves, and that the United States has been slavery-free ever since. These things we know –- and none of it is true.
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
Public Ethics Media
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04/24/09
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The economic crisis has been compared to familiar catastrophes such as the sinking Titanic and a tsunami. But the car crash analogy works much better for moral judgments about who should bear the costs of the financial crisis.
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Peter David Pedersen
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04/15/09
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What does it mean to build an economy on sound ecological principles? It means that all forms of business and other human activity will be directed toward a truly cyclical use of resources, zero carbon emissions, and restoration and reinvestment in natural capital.
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